China’s largest property developer Country Garden said its profits have dropped 96% amid a sector crisis it described as a “severe depression” and one that “only the fittest can survive,” The Guardian reported, noting that the company has thousands of projects in nearly 300 municipalities.
Net profits plunged from $2 billion to $88 million in the first half of the year, according to the developer, which said the construction sector had been ravaged by “sluggish demand, weakening expectations and falling prices.”
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